Improvement in lozenge-machines



2 sheets sheet 1. A. P. YATES 8|. 1. W ALIER Lounge-Machines.

Patented Sept. 8,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR P. YATES AND JOSEPH WALIER, OF SYRACUSE, NEW -YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN LOZ ENGE-MACHINES.

Specification formin g part of Letters Patent No. 154,818, datedSeptember 8, 1874; application filed July 10, 1874.

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that we, ARTHUR P. YATns andJosEPH WALIER, both of the city of Syfication, with its accompanyingdrawings, is

a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention'consists in the arrangement of rollers in sets, one abovethe other upon the same standard, so that the paste, after it has beenpassed through one set of rollers, is completely turned over before itreaches another set of rollers; also, in the construction of the maindriving-wheel, which gives three different motions to the machine.

In the drawings, Figure I shows a side cleva'tion of the-machine; Fig.II, asection of the rollers upon the line as m, Fig. I; and. Fig. III, asectional elevation of the hollow cutters upon the line y 51 Fig. I.

The frame-work of the machine is intended to be of cast-iron The rollersare arranged in sets, one above another, upon the same standard; Eachset is arranged closer than the last preceding set above .it, so thatthethickness of thepaste may be properly graduated. These rollers areprovided with bands and cog-wheels,

so that they derive their motion from the main driving-wheel, but thelast set of rollers is independent of the preceding sets above it; thefirst two sets of rollers have continuous motion, but the third setreceives intermittent motion by means of a ratchet-Wheel that isoperated by a lever and one or more pins on the main driving-wheel,which, as this Wheel revolves, engage with the lever, turning theratchet-wheel only a part of the distance on its axle, when the pinandle-ver separate. The driving-wheel also imparts motion to thevertical hollow cutters and the printing device by means oftoggle-jointed levers, and the machinery is so arranged that, as thelower apron intermittently forwards the paste from the last. precedingset of rollers, the paste is first printed and then carried under theho]- low cutters; thelozenges, falling underneath, are carried on atraveling band to a suitable receptacle, while the scrap paste iscarried to a separate tray. The paste, when mixed, is placed in thetrough A, whence, by motion of the machine, it is drawn through thefirst set i over. This permits the opposite side of the paste to bepowdered from another sugar-box,

F, arranged over the apron E. The paste is now carried through rollersG, which again reduce the thickness of the paste, which is then carriedforward by the apron H under the sugar-box I, after which the paste isagain turned over upon the apron J, which carries it beneath thesugar-box K through the last set of rollers, L, where it is finallyreduced to the desired thickness and discharged with an intermittentmotion upon the delivery-apron M. The motion of this apron is receivedfrom? the ratchet-wheel N, and the distance traveled by thisdelivery-apron is regulated by an adjustable pin, P, at each partialrevolution of Intermittent mo- I tion is also given to the apron J byits being attached to the rollers L, which gear into the ratchet-wheelN. But a continuous motion is .3 given to the two upper sets of rollers,that the main driving-Wheel O.

are connected by large gear-wheels, by means of another largegear-wheel, Q, and the band U which joins it to the main driving-Wheel.The delivery-apron carries the paste forward until it reaches a printer,R, that is operated by the levers b T and the levers 2, 3, and 4t, andan inking-roller is attached to the circu-a lar arm u, so that everytime the lever T reciprocates up and down the type is freshly V v inked.Of course, there are placed as manyyf printing devices on theprinting-barR as there f: are hollow cutters, but it may be desirable to7 make plain lozenges; in such case, the printin g bar is disconnectedfrom the machine. Thenext intermittent motion of the delivery-aproncarries the printed paste forward under a row or set of hollow cutters,w, on top of the table 2. These cutters are worked by the lovers 2 and3, united upon the principle of the toggle-joint, and all of them soconnected as to be operated by the main driving-wheel,'and the leversare arranged to operate so that the cutters will be forced through thepaste one or more times on every revolution of the drivingwheel. Thestandard 5 serves to hold the paste firmly during the act of cutting.The lozenges fall through the hollow cutters onto anotherdelivery-apron, 6, so as to be carried to trays at a distance; or,instead, they may fall into trays set right beneath the cutters. Thescrap paste is carried upon apron 7 into a separate tray-box, and thenit is molded over again.

By the construction of the wheel 0 continuous motion is imparted torollers B and G by means of wheel Q and band U. Intermittent motion isgiven to the rollers L and the band M by means of a ratchet wheel andbar which are operated by the adjustable pins P, and a verticalreciprocating motion is given to the printing device R and the hollowcutters w by means of the levers 2, 3, and 4, which operate on theprinciple of a toggle-joint.

We are aware that many of the elements shown in this machine are notnew. We lay no claim to graduated paste-rollers or sugarboxes, or theprinting device, or the hollow cutters; but we represent that greateconomy in space is gained in our construction of machine by placing thegraduating paste-rollers all upon the same standard, and which webelieve to be an improvement upon the patented machine of W. E. Demant,No. 5,171, Decemher 3, 18 72; and we further specify as novel theconstruction of the main driving-wheel, which gives three differentmotions.

We claim 1. The combination, upon one standard, of the graduatedpaste-rollers, arranged in pairs. with the traveling-aprons, so thatwhen the paste is passed between one pair it is inverted before itreaches the succeeding pair of rollers, and is also diminished inthickness as it passes through each succeeding pair, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination of the Wheel 0 with the levers 2'3 4 and the levers ST, whereby continuous reciprocating motion is imparted to the printingdevice, and also to the hollow cutters, for the purpose specified.

3. The combination of the ratchet-wheel N with the main driving-wheel O,thelower pair of rollers L, and the traveling apron M, for the purposeof giving intermittent motion to the rollers and the apron,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we hereunto subscribe our names at the city ofSyracuse, New York, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, on thisthe 1st day of July, 1874.

' ARTHUR P. YATES.

JOSEPH WALIER. Witnesses:

E. S. DAWSON, S. HERTIG.

